Every Friday, I pick out four new music picks from the best of the music blogosphere as part of my Day & Night digital section. Follow Day & Night on Twitter or Facebook. It’s out today in print with every copy of the Irish Independent.
CYMBALS
Cymbals ply their trade in catchy future indie-pop with a dose of the sonic jitters. ‘No Bad Decisions’ is the Oxford band’s excellent new single.
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TV Girl
Conjuring up everything that’s wonderful about listening to old soul records, this San Diego band may be throwbacks but the sampled strings of ‘I Wonder Who She’s Kissing Now’ place us in the here and now of bloody good pop music.
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Girl Band
Bitzl R and The Point Of Everything were impressed by Dublin’s Girl Band’s debut single of grungy loud rock In My Head last week. As you might predict, there are no girls in the band.
A$AP Rocky & Theophilus London
Two contrasting rappers, one with purple swagger and one friendly to the fashion industry combine on a track which samples Shirley Bassey’s Big Spender.
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
